| From: | "Dawid Kuroczko" <qnex42(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Billings, John" <John(dot)Billings(at)paetec(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Using the GPU |
| Date: | 2007-06-08 22:47:08 |
| Message-ID: | 758d5e7f0706081547q2f7a1df6r39afb1b7d06b6725@mail.gmail.com |
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On 6/8/07, Billings, John <John(dot)Billings(at)paetec(dot)com> wrote:
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> Does anyone think that PostgreSQL could benefit from using the video card as a parallel computing device? I'm working on a project using Nvidia's CUDA with an 8800 series video card to handle non-graphical algorithms. I'm curious if anyone thinks that this technology could be used to speed up a database? If so which part of the database, and what kind of parallel algorithms would be used?
You might want to look at:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ngm/15-823/project/Final.pdf
...haven't used it though...
Regards,
Dawid
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